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Judges at the International Crime Court (ICC) have ruled that prosecutors can bring a hearing on charges against a fugitive Ugandan warlord despite his absence. Joseph Kony was the leader of the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA),…

South Africa's navy has joined the search for a six-year-old girl which has transfixed the country. Joslin Smith disappeared from outside her home in Saldanha Bay, near Cape Town, two weeks ago. The 300 naval officers join rescuers…

Chad’s interim president, Mahamat Idriss Déby, on Saturday said he will run in this year’s long-awaited presidential race. His candidacy was endorsed by representatives of the political groups that make up his coalition, For a United…

Top army officials from the southern African regional bloc visited the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday, amid ongoing fighting between government troops and M23 rebels. The chiefs of defence staff of Southern…

Some 170 people including women and children have been "executed" in attacks on three villages in Burkina Faso, a public prosecutor has said. Aly Benjamin Coulibaly appealed for witnesses to help find those who attacked Komsilga, Nordin…

The Yaoundé military court in Cameroon on Friday closed their judicial investigation into the murder of journalist and former director of radio amplitude FM, Martinez Zogo who died just over a year ago. The trial will now open in the…

Laduma Ngxokolo can pinpoint the exact moment he became a man - and how it inspired his unique sense of fashion. In 2004, he spent a month in the wilderness with a troop of young men from his community - all part of a coming-of-age…

A military court in Somalia has sentenced six Islamic State fighters from Morocco to death. The men will be executed by a firing squad if their appeal, which they have one month to file, is unsuccessful. "They came to Somalia to…

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema declared the drought a national disaster and emergency on Thursday, saying it had devastated food production and power generation, as the country struggles to recover a recent cholera epidemic. Like…

The state-run Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) on Thursday cut power supplies to the parliament over a debt of 23m Ghanaian cedi. The outage interrupted a debate on the president's State of the Nation speech. A video shared by local…